Directions in Safety-Critical Systems Proceedings of the First Safety-critical Systems Symposium The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol 9–11 February 1993

0 e This is the proceedings of the first annual symposium of the Safety-critical Systems Club (The Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, 9-11 February 1993), which provided a forum for exploring and discussing ways of achieving safety in computer systems to be used in safety-critical industrial applications. The book is divided into three parts, which correspond with the themes of the three days of the symposium. The first - Experience from Around Europe - brings together information on developments in safety-critical systems outside the UK. The second - Current Research - consists of papers on large projects within the UK, which involve collaboration between academia and industry, providing techniques and methods to enhance safety. The final part - Achieving and Evaluating Safety - explores how methods already in use in other domains may be applied to safety, and examines the relationships between safety and other attributes such as quality and security. The papers identify the current problems and issues of interest in the field of safety-critical software-based systems, and provide valuable up-to-date material for those in both academia and industry. The academic will benefit from information about current research complimentary to his own, and the industrialist will learn of the technologies which will soon be available and where to find them.

I: Experience from Around Europe.- Certification of Safety Critical Systems in Germany.- Safety for European Space Agency Space Programmes.- The Swedish State Railways’ Experience with n-Version Programmed Systems.- Potential Difficulties in Managing Safety-critical Computing Projects: a Sociological View.- II: Current Research.- Classification of Programmable Electronic Systems Operation for Testability.- Data Management in Clinical Laboratory Information Systems.- Software Engineering Methods for Industrial Safety Related Applications.- Finite Element Safety Critical Software.- Using the Functional Programming Language Haskell to Specify Image Analysis Systems.- Developing an Environment for Computer-based Automotive Suspension and Steering Systems.- The Practical Application of Formal Methods to High Integrity Systems — The SafeFM Project.- Tool Support for an Application-specific Language.- III: Achieving and Evaluating Safety.- SAM — A Tool to Support the Construction, Review and Evolution of Safety Arguments.- The Need for Evidence from Disparate Sources to Evaluate Software Safety.- A Modified Hazop Methodology for Safety Critical System Assessment.- Applying Security Techniques to Achieving Safety.- New Developments in Quality Management as a Pre-requisite to Safety.- An Industrial Approach to Integrity Level Determination and Safety Interlock System Implementation.- Unification in Uncertainty?.- Author Index.